Call for Papers: Human Rights and the Digitalization of Food Systems, 22–23 October 2026, Rome, Italy
This workshop will explore human rights-based approaches to the digitalization of food systems. We are interested in submissions that analyze the impact of digital agricultural technologies on the human right to food—particularly the rights of women, small-scale food producers, peasants, Indigenous peoples, food chain workers, low-income consumers, migrants, refugees, people living in conflict zones and other populations depending on humanitarian aid. Studies may range from community case studies to analyses at national, regional and transnational levels. We particularly encourage contributions that take an intersectional approach and examine the human rights of marginalized identities and communities, as well as rural constituencies whose rights have been underrepresented in discussions of digital food systems, including fisherfolk and pastoralists.
The two-day, hybrid workshop will serve a dual purpose: as a research seminar organized by the Data for Sustainable and Equitable Digital Food Systems (DigiFood) Research Project and as part of a broader consultation process conducted by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Matthew Canfield (m.c.canfield@law.leidenuniv.nl) and Daniel Bertram (d.a.bertram@law.leidenuniv.nl) by 19 July. Draft papers do not need to be circulated prior to the meeting. In your submission, please indicate whether you would prefer to attend in-person or online, and if you require funding to participate in-person.
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